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[https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/ BIND ] is open source software that implements the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System Domain Name System (DNS) ] protocols for the Internet. It is a reference implementation of those protocols, but it is also production-grade software, suitable for use in high-volume and high-reliability applications. The name BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Domain”, because the software originated in the early 1980s at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley University of California at Berkeley].
BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet, providing a robust and stable platform on top of which organizations can build distributed computing systems with the knowledge that those systems are fully compliant with published DNS standards.
